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A love story of modern Poland, by the author of Quo Vadis. The scene is laid at Kieff, and university life there is described. In Vain the first literary work of Sienkiewicz, was written before he had passed the eighteenth year of his life and while he was studying at Warsaw. This volume contains pictures of student life drawn by a student who saw the life which he describes in this work. His student was a person of exceptional power and excep...

CONTENTSYanko the MusicianThe Light-House Keeper of AspinwallFrom the Diary of a Tutor in PoznanComedy Errors: A Sketch of American LifeBartek the Victor

Contains the stories "Lillian Morris, " "Sachem, " "Yamyl, " and "The Bull-Fight." Known for their great narrative power and contain vivid characterizations, Sienkiewicz' work includes the great trilogy of historical novels With Fire and Sword (1884), The Deluge (1886), and Pan Michael (1887-88). Henryk (Adam Alexander Pius) Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a Polish novelist. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the United States, and in the 1870s beg...

A historical novel by the eminent Polish Positivist writer and the 1905 Nobel laureate, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Its first English translation was published in the same year as the original. Before its first complete printed edition appeared in 1900. The book was first translated into English by Jeremiah Curtin, a contemporary of Sienkiewicz. The Teutonic Knights has since been translated into 25 languages. It was the first book to be printed in Po...

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A historical novel by the eminent Polish Positivist writer and the 1905 Nobel laureate, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Its first English translation was published in the same year as the original. Before its first complete printed edition appeared in 1900. The book was first translated into English by Jeremiah Curtin, a contemporary of Sienkiewicz. The Teutonic Knights has since been translated into 25 languages. It was the first book to be printed in Po...